GENERAL INDEX. 



The names of the Ships in the British Navy are printed in Italics. Those of the Mercantile Marine and foreign vessels 



are printed with inverted commas [" "]. 



"Aaron Mauby," iron steamer, ii. 102 



Abbot of Arberbrothok : the bell on the Inchcape Rock, 



ii. 173 



Accumulator, the, for deep-sea sounding, i. 29, 35 

 Acephala, iv. 128 

 Actinozoa, iv. 115 



Adair, Captain, killed at Trafalgar, i. 1 1 

 Adams, John, a survivor of the mutiny of the Bounty, i. 248, 



249 

 Adams, William: his attempt to discover the North-west 



Passage, iii. 142 



Adriauson, Claes : his death at Nova Zembla, iii. 139, 140 

 "Advance," Dr. Kane's ship in his search for Franklin, iii. 



214, 233 ; the ship abandoned, iii. 247 



''Adventure," the ship of Captain KMd, the pirate, iii. 56, 57 

 "Adventure," wrecked in the Tyne, ii. 210 

 Adventure and Resolution, Captain Cook's voyage of discovery, 



iii. 277 



Africa : diamond fields, i. 210 

 African Company : slave trade, ii. 33 

 African Naval Station, i. 202 

 Agalmarubra, iv. 118, 120 



Agamemnon, i. 16 ; laying the first submarine Atlantic tele- 

 graph cable, iv. 101, 102 



Agassiz, Prof. : on the sea-serpent, iv. 187, 189 

 "Aid," steam tug, Ramsgate, ii. 215224; iv. 246 

 Airy, Prof. Sir G. B. : the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, iv. 



278282 

 Alaska, i. 169; Sitka, its capital, 169, 170; intense cold in, iii. 



Ill, 135; houses of the natives, 156, 157 

 41 Albemarle," Lieut. Cushing's attack on the, ii. 151 

 '"Albion," lugger, hovelling, ii. 246 ; the lugger lost, 248 

 Alcatras Island, San Francisco, i. 157 

 Alceste, wreck of the, i. 82, 83 

 Aldrich, Lieut. P., voyage of the Alert, iii. 102, 107 

 Alert and Discover;/ ; expedition to the Polar regions, highest 



latitude ever reached, iii. 99 114; departure of the ships 



from Portsmouth, 65, 84; the Alert described, 92; The 



Alert in winter quarters, 104 

 Aleutian Islands, i. 169, 170 

 Alexandra, turret ship, ii. 146, 147 

 Alfonso XI., Gibraltar besieged by, i. 91 

 Alfred the Great : his ships, i. 265 

 Allan, Dr. John : propulsion of ships, ii. 80 

 Almendral, or Almond Grovie, Valparaiso, i. 174 

 "Amazon," burning of the, ii. 257, 278290 

 Ainadas, Captain, discovery of Virginia, i. 319 



159 



America : its name derived from Amerigo Vespucci, iii. 301 

 probably peopled by natives of Asia, i. 139 ; its colonisa- 

 tion, ii. 62, 69 ; map of Central America, iii. 17 



"America," Pacific steam-ship, iv. 38 



American Arctic expeditions. (See Grinnell, H.) 



American railways, iv. 15 20 



American sailors, i. 226 



Amerigo Vespucci, title of America derived from him, iii. 301 



"Amethyst," action with the "Huascar," i. 26 



Amherst, Lord : wreck of the Alceste, i. 83 



Ammonites, iv. 143 



Amroth, submerged forest at, iv. 199 



Amsterdam Island, iii. 257 



Amusements : on board ships, iv. 33, 34 ; on American rail- 

 ways, 27 



Anderson, captain of the "Great Eastern:" laying the sub- 

 marine telegraph cable, iv. 108, 110 



Anemones : sea-anemones, iv. 123, 125 



Animal life in the Arctic regions, iii. 167, 171 



"Ann " wrecked : loss of a life-boat, ii. 212, 216 



Anson, Commodore, at Juan Fernandez, i. 33 ; portrait, ii. 

 45 ; his voyage round the world in the Centurion, 45 62 ; 

 at Cape Horn, 49 ; scurvy, 50 ; mutiny and desertion, 52, 53 ; 

 capture of the "Carmelo," ii. 55, 56. Other prizes : capture 

 of Paita, 55 ; Tinian, Ladrone Islands, 57 ; " Nostra Signoru 

 de Cadabonga," galleon, taken, 59, 60, 61 



Antarctic Ice, the Challenger in, i. 33 ; icebergs, 35 



Antarctic Regions, the, iii. 276 



Ants on board ship, i. 222 



Apes at Gibraltar, i. 88, 97 



Aquaria, their early and recent history, iv. 114 



Arbroath, the Bell Rock Lighthouse, ii. 174 



Arcachon, Bay of, its oyster-beds, iv. 137 



"Archimedes, "screw-propeller, ii. 103 



Arctic, derivation of the word, iii. 276 



Arctic expeditions, iii. 84 275 ; the first Arctic voyages, iii. 

 115 123 ; other early expeditions, 123129 



"Arctic," steam ship: collision with the "Vesta," ii. 107; 

 foundering of the "Arctic," 108; iv. 283 



Argonauta," paper nautilus, iv. 150 



"Arizona," Atlantic steamer, iv. 3 

 Armada, Spanish, i. 283291 



Armour plates and guns, i. 86. (See Iron-clad ships.) 

 Armstrong, Sir W. G. : the Armstrong guns, i. 86 

 Arsenals established by Henry VIII., i. 282 

 Artillery, Marine, early history, i. 278 ; gunnery of war ships, 

 i. 14 



